The cunning of gender violence : geopolitics and feminism / edited by Lila Abu-Lughod, Rema Hammami and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian.

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English
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Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2023.
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x, 468 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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"The Cunning of Gender Violence focuses on the selective ways a visionary feminist project has folded itself into world affairs. Over the course of two decades, gender-based violence against women has emerged as highly publicized and powerful agenda within international governance and law, increasingly folded into state sovereignty and global security. The volume tracks operations across four circuits of power: global security regimes, states and state violence; the humanitarian-development nexus; and mass media. Through close ethnographic studies and analysis of discourses, the essays explore the ways gender-based violence against women may be affirming, enabling, or sustaining rationales and systems of power and civilizational hierarches that are harmful for many. Through case studies on Palestine, Bangladesh, Iran, India, Pakistan, Israel, and Turkey, as well as U.S. foreign policy and the international legal institutions from the International Criminal Court to the UN Security Council, Cunning of Gender Violence traces the silences and omissions of the governmentalized categories of gender-based violence against women while analyzing its real-world impacts"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Lawfare, CVE, and international conflict feminism / Vasuki Nesiah
  • Securofeminism : embracing a phantom / Lila Abu-Lughod
  • The role of "honor killings" in the Muslim ban / Leti Volpp
  • Because religion : does something called "religion" cause gender-based-violence? / Janet R. Jakobsen
  • GBV and postcolonial India : transnational media, Hindutva, and Muslim racializations / Inderpal Grewal
  • The politics of legislating "honor crime" in contemporary Pakistan / Shenila Khoja-Moolji
  • State criminality and gender-based violence : Palestinian schoolgirls between books and rifles / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
  • Power, subjectivity, and sexuality in Iranian political prisons / Shahla Talebi
  • Child marriage in the feminist imagination / Dina M. Siddiqi
  • Catastrophic aid : GBV humanitarianism in Gaza / Rema Hammami
  • What counts as violence? Transgender refugees, torture, and sanctions / Sima Shakhsari
  • Weaponized bodies : female genital cutting and immigrant exclusion / Rafia Zakaria
  • Breaking the frame : the power of media narratives and the question of agency / Samira Shackle
  • Dressed up, stripped down : media depictions of conflict rape / Nina Berman.
ISBN
  • 9781478020431 ((paperback))
  • 1478020431
  • 9781478019954 ((hardcover))
  • 1478019956
LCCN
2022045972
OCLC
1355026412
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